WHY does SE insist on making this game so unforgiving?

[Fortuna]

"To any person that replies with "hurr hurr suck less" or something equally stupid, I played XI for like six years and haven't had nearly as much difficulty THERE as I do HERE."

I stopped reading there.

People can make a come back vs ifrit, moogle, Chimera, Batral, any big boss in 14, you name it, even when half your party is down. In most of your fights if both your whm's are down for 30 seconds, you party can still hold on thanks to the degree of sustain that most job/classes have.

In 11? Name me a Nyzul Island boss witch you can survive with your whm down for 30 seconds(besides Adamantoise). Name me a sea god which you can make a come back from after your alliance pop it by accident(I am still sorry keelo lol). Name me a LS that can survive a terrible pull in Dynamis-Windurst. Don't make me start with CoP please.

Want to taste real unforgiveness? ask people that did the airship fight before level-cap was destroyed what kind of chances SE give them. Even in perfection(Strategy wize, and gear wize) the mission would let you win only if it wanted.

[Hippo]

I'll be in Hard Mode.

Quieter and no false expectations.

I'll also have cookiees.

apologies, i shouldn't have spoken dor the rest of the community. pardon my generalization

[Fear]

"To any person that replies with "hurr hurr suck less" or something equally stupid, I played XI for like six years and haven't had nearly as much difficulty THERE as I do HERE."

I stopped reading there.

People can make a come back vs ifrit, moogle, Chimera, Batral, any big boss in 14, you name it, even when half your party is down. In most of your fights if both your whm's are down for 30 seconds, you party can still hold on thanks to the degree of sustain that most job/classes have.

In 11? Name me a Nyzul Island boss witch you can survive with your whm down for 30 seconds(besides Adamantoise). Name me a sea god which you can make a come back from after your alliance pop it by accident(I am still sorry keelo lol). Name me a LS that can survive a terrible pull in Dynamis-Windurst. Don't make me start with CoP please.

Want to taste real unforgiveness? ask people that did the airship fight before level-cap was destroyed what kind of chances SE give them. Even in perfection(Strategy wize, and gear wize) the mission would let you win only if it wanted.

Took me 12 trys to win that damn airship fight >.>

[Renshi]

I think I know what you feel OP...
Here we have tried to do oh so many Ifrit runs, always gathering people willing to beat that sorry arse. The first times we tried to get random people, seeing how it goes.

Crud.

The next time we did a group we went with pretty experienced people.

Crud.

The maybe last time we even made a guide, trying to explain from head to feet how to fight Ifrit successfully, working on strategies and things.

Crud.

As for now we feel to not fight Ifrit again for quite some time, after these... 50~ consecutive losses. We'll try this again maybe sometime in the future, but until now it just has lead into frustration, and if in 10 runs we had one win, it's not gonna get us the weapons any sooner.

[Gramul]

To please me.

[Zaaku]

"To any person that replies with "hurr hurr suck less" or something equally stupid, I played XI for like six years and haven't had nearly as much difficulty THERE as I do HERE."

I stopped reading there.

People can make a come back vs ifrit, moogle, Chimera, Batral, any big boss in 14, you name it, even when half your party is down. In most of your fights if both your whm's are down for 30 seconds, you party can still hold on thanks to the degree of sustain that most job/classes have.

In 11? Name me a Nyzul Island boss witch you can survive with your whm down for 30 seconds(besides Adamantoise). Name me a sea god which you can make a come back from after your alliance pop it by accident(I am still sorry keelo lol). Name me a LS that can survive a terrible pull in Dynamis-Windurst. Don't make me start with CoP please.

Want to taste real unforgiveness? ask people that did the airship fight before level-cap was destroyed what kind of chances SE give them. Even in perfection(Strategy wize, and gear wize) the mission would let you win only if it wanted.

Tanking Omega is still one of my most cherished memories. Rot in hell you mechanical whoreborn devil slut.

[KujinRen]

Please do not make this game any easier than it already is.

To the OP, it is called "Hard Mode" Ifrit for a reason. Not to sound mean, but if you're having that much trouble with Hard Mode Ifrit, you may want to stick with "Easy Mode" Ifrit for a while.

If the fight was really that hard, 70% of the server wouldn't have it on farm status.

To be straight up, your problem could be one of the following:

1. Incompetent tank
2. Incompetent party members
3. You're just not a competent player (playing FFXI for 6 years doesn't mean anything)
4 Terrible reaction time
5. You perhaps have a low end computer which may hinder your performance due to lag, etc

[Asiaine]

apologies, i shouldn't have spoken dor the rest of the community. pardon my generalization

That's okey... You come to Hard Mode world and I'll give you a cookiee ^.^

[Renshi]

Please do not make this game any easier than it already is.

To the OP, it is called "Hard Mode" Ifrit for a reason. Not to sound mean, but if you're having that much trouble with Hard Mode Ifrit, you may want to stick with "Easy Mode" Ifrit for a while.

If the fight was really that hard, 70% of the server wouldn't have it on farm status.

To be straight up, your problem could be one of the following:

1. Incompetent tank
2. Incompetent party members
3. You're just not a competent player (playing FFXI for 6 years doesn't mean anything)
4 Terrible reaction time
5. You perhaps have a low end computer which may hinder your performance due to lag, etc

You are making a good point! Only that Ifrit Easy Mode can't be repeated, and knowing people they must have done it already.
In my case, I know how to tank Ifrit and do it properly, but there's always someone in the party who screws up, and after 50~ runs it doesn't feel any rewarding in the means of knowing the battle. I'm always doing the same usual sh*t which should take us to victory, but it leads to failure. It doesn't feel rewarding anymore.

[Inzoum]

I don't know how you're playing, but I play WHM50 as my main job and really don't have much problems with it at all. I can keep my party healed just fin. Heck, Conjurers/White Mages shouldn't run out of MP ever with everything at their disposal. If you can't heal better, you can always heal more with that near-infinite MP pool.

Sure, WHM get hit HARD. But then again, you have native access to Protect (Enhanced!), Stoneskin (Enhanced!), Rampart and Sentinel (from Gladiator). Protect + Stoneskin + full HP should be enough to survive those powerful attacks, just keep Stoneskin fresh. Stack all of that and you can survive the super attacks. If you don't, then it's not your fault, either there were too many nails standing before Hellfire, too many moogles remaining before Memento, or the pillars were too damaged before Aerial Blast. Then there's nothing you can do to survive. But if your team is doing it well, you really have everything you need at your disposal to survive properly and buff/heal your team

I really don't know what else to say, it's fine for me.